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To Stop a Stoning in Iran

Anthropologists studying the Dark Ages, might want to look at modern-day Iran for what it looked like. Conversely, the Shah and others from that era must surely be rolling over in their graves. Maybe in his time stoning people to death was something that happened in the far reaches of the province. Now it is front and center with Napoleon Adhmadinejad.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashianti, was convicted of adultery by an Iranian judge in 2006 and will be buried up to her chest and stoned to death. She was questioned in Farsi, a language she does not understand, and convicted by a judge who under Iranian law, was allowed to convict her based on a feeling or a hunch. The 43 year-old mother of two has maintained her innocence. Innocent or guilty, the punishment hardly fits the crime. The story and online petition are here.

The impending stoning in Iran is the measure of the evil that can occur in a theocratic state, but when mentioning the Shah, whom we put in power after the CIA murdered the duly elected democratic leader, (Mossadegh) in 1953, it is important to remember that the Shah’s secret terror police (Savak) brutally murdered thousand of his citizens, which no doubt explains the willingness of the Iranians to follow the barbaric Ayatollah that succeeded him. Iran, Iraq and Israel, are all mistakes the United States made that have caused the Muslim world to justifiably hate us, as we tried to manipulate the area to benefit our corporate masters.